SecurityBridge wins GIT Safety Award 2019

The application Firewall SecurityBridge occupied the 3. place in the GIT SECURITY Award. The award was presented on 27. November 2018 a the SPS IPC Drives in Nürnberg.

The GIT SECURITY AWARD is awarded nationally and internationally. Three innovative products with the most votes were selected from six categories altogether. SecurityBridge was competing in "Category A – Safety and IT-Security in Automation, Cyber-Security". It convinced out customers, partners, market participants and the readers of the magazines GIT SICHERHEIT, GIT SECURITY and messtec drives Automation and it won through against a 14 more finalists.

This is how to use SecurityBridge

SecurityBridge can be connected upstream of the base unit of PNOZmulti or the PLC controller PSSuniversal PLC. It acts as a VPN server, over which a virtual private network (VPN) can be established to one or more client PCs (configuration PC). The connection between PC and device is thus protected. Only suitably authorised users can make changes to a project’s configuration. This prevents unauthorised access to the secured network. The result is that the data transfer between the client PC and SecurityBridge is protected against tapping and manipulation.

The SecurityBridge also controls the process data traffic, and it monitors the integrity of the safety system. Changes in the check sum indicate that there are changes in the projects of PNOZmulti and PSS 4000.

Benefits at a glance:

Protection from data manipulation by authentication and authorisation management

Increases the availability of the plant because only the necessary data (authorised configuration and process data) are transferred

Forwarding or process data with a low latency

Detects unpermitted changes to the project by monitoring the check sum (CRC)

Prevents unauthorised access because there are downstream devices in a protected network

Configuration changes to a project can only be performed by users who have a relevant authorisation

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